Nietzsche wanted to make a re-evaluation of all values. But we have also to re-evaluate our tastes and desires.
Before better governance, what is needed is better cognizance. And it does not matter what the world thinks, as long as the USA and the EU are at each others’ throats.
World democracy is an illusion. There are UN Security Council permanent members, they pack up more than 95% of the world military capability, and another name for that is global peace.
It is certainly better than global war.
The big problem right now is that a loose alliance of world plutocrats (and I include Chinese and Russian leaders in that) led by their main headquarters in Wall Street is fighting the better angels of the European leadership. So democracy which is pretty much reduced to North America, Europe and a few colonies thereof, is split.
The USA keeps believing in it’s exploitative mentality, thanks to colossal propaganda from the fossil fuel, health, military-industrial, banking and academic plutocracies. The EU itself is under American plutocratic assault (OK, it’s their fault, but…).
Before governance, what is needed is cognizance, that means that the history, and even economic history, and the philosophy thereof, of the last 2,000 years needs to be dissected. Professor Diamond did a bit of that, much more needs to be done, hence my labors on:
http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Abrahamism Does NOT Have The Monopoly Of Faith
Those who believe in a particular superstition do not have the monopoly of faith. As the site below will soon argue in more detail, faith is indispensable for a creature of culture to have a mind (OK, this is extremely advanced philosophy). The adulators of the child molester Abraham should be reminded of this.
On another note, the growth of religious fanaticism in the USA is directly related to its sinking into plutocracy. It's part of a general decerebration, and expresses, just as the despicable Abraham does, the willingness to hurt the child to please the boss.
http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/
On another note, the growth of religious fanaticism in the USA is directly related to its sinking into plutocracy. It's part of a general decerebration, and expresses, just as the despicable Abraham does, the willingness to hurt the child to please the boss.
http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/
Sunday, January 29, 2012
On Muslim Immigration In The EU
Tyranosopher
January 27th, 2012.
Europe, per its many nations coming together in an union, is a place of debate, therein its strength: many ideas are proposed, the best ones mate together and produce better sorts of ideas.
As far as anti-Muslim racism is concerned, let's notice the following. More than a millennium ago, France silently incorporated an important Muslim population, without any coercion (we know this from genetic analysis). If the High Middle Ages could do it, so can we.
http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/
la.výritý in reply to Tyranosopher
January 29th The damaging effects of Muslim immigration into the secular societies of Western Europe is caused by 'a millennium' of religious-ethical, cultural and scientifical stagnation of the immigrating Muslim culture (and its insistence to cling to it); while the host culture is-as-it-is exactly because it shook off, during and after the Age of Enlightenment, the yoke of a -religiously- too tight interpretation of the world.
A millennium ago it was the other way around: The Muslim world was culturally and scientifically more advanced than medieval Europe.
Personally, I think that a Muslim background is no hindrances to enter successfully a secular Western society . . . but the insistence to cling to the very narrow religious guidelines for social cohabitation, especially with another culture, makes the current Muslim culture more or less incompatible with the 'open-society-model' so commonly-received among Europeans.
This is why some social-scientific thinkers reflect upon the end of 'multicultural tolerance' after masses of Muslim immigrants sought economic refuge within European countries' political borders.
Tyranosopher in reply to la.výritý
Dear la.vyrity:
I understand what you say. I am myself a cultural supremacist, and an enemy of superstition. I am also from Africa. There is no contradiction; a lot of "Muslims" have left Africa (say), precisely to enjoy a secular republican state in Europe.
There should be not favor extended to Islam which is not extended to other superstitions, such as Judaism (say) and Muslim "law" should not be tolerated in the slightest.
The assertion that the Muslim world was more advanced a millenium ago is widespread, but not true. It is a legend created by very dishonest pseudo intellectuals.
For example the empire of the Franks tolerated Jews and Muslims... With equal rights. Catholics became Jews in droves: that was OK.
In the Iberian Caliphate next door, switching from Muslim to Christian, even for an ex-Christian, was the cause for a very painful execution.
Technologically, the Franks had superior steel by 721 CE (this allowed them to annihilate the army of the Arab Caliphate, in a war, 721-750 CE, which fell to the Iranians by 750 CE, as a result). Europeans also invented the first mechanical clocks (let alone plenty of new species of plants, including beans, and animals).
There is much more along these unconventional lines of wisdom on the site Patrice Ayme (Google!)
January 27th, 2012.
Europe, per its many nations coming together in an union, is a place of debate, therein its strength: many ideas are proposed, the best ones mate together and produce better sorts of ideas.
As far as anti-Muslim racism is concerned, let's notice the following. More than a millennium ago, France silently incorporated an important Muslim population, without any coercion (we know this from genetic analysis). If the High Middle Ages could do it, so can we.
http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/
la.výritý in reply to Tyranosopher
January 29th The damaging effects of Muslim immigration into the secular societies of Western Europe is caused by 'a millennium' of religious-ethical, cultural and scientifical stagnation of the immigrating Muslim culture (and its insistence to cling to it); while the host culture is-as-it-is exactly because it shook off, during and after the Age of Enlightenment, the yoke of a -religiously- too tight interpretation of the world.
A millennium ago it was the other way around: The Muslim world was culturally and scientifically more advanced than medieval Europe.
Personally, I think that a Muslim background is no hindrances to enter successfully a secular Western society . . . but the insistence to cling to the very narrow religious guidelines for social cohabitation, especially with another culture, makes the current Muslim culture more or less incompatible with the 'open-society-model' so commonly-received among Europeans.
This is why some social-scientific thinkers reflect upon the end of 'multicultural tolerance' after masses of Muslim immigrants sought economic refuge within European countries' political borders.
Tyranosopher in reply to la.výritý
Dear la.vyrity:
I understand what you say. I am myself a cultural supremacist, and an enemy of superstition. I am also from Africa. There is no contradiction; a lot of "Muslims" have left Africa (say), precisely to enjoy a secular republican state in Europe.
There should be not favor extended to Islam which is not extended to other superstitions, such as Judaism (say) and Muslim "law" should not be tolerated in the slightest.
The assertion that the Muslim world was more advanced a millenium ago is widespread, but not true. It is a legend created by very dishonest pseudo intellectuals.
For example the empire of the Franks tolerated Jews and Muslims... With equal rights. Catholics became Jews in droves: that was OK.
In the Iberian Caliphate next door, switching from Muslim to Christian, even for an ex-Christian, was the cause for a very painful execution.
Technologically, the Franks had superior steel by 721 CE (this allowed them to annihilate the army of the Arab Caliphate, in a war, 721-750 CE, which fell to the Iranians by 750 CE, as a result). Europeans also invented the first mechanical clocks (let alone plenty of new species of plants, including beans, and animals).
There is much more along these unconventional lines of wisdom on the site Patrice Ayme (Google!)
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
GOLDMAN DEMONIC POWER VERSUS GRAND DIVINE PLAN
Economic performance is generally first measured by GDP, Gross Domestic Power. The gross power of domestics? Much too much of it is "financial", whatever that means.
GDP? Which GDP indeed? GDP as Goldman Demonic Power? Enough of that already!
The problem with the present GDP is that it is too dependent on the financial piracy part of it. It is a bit like saying that the bigger the one who is ravaged by metastatic cancer, the better, while most of her mass is a malignant tumor, and growing.
In truth we need a Grand Divine Plan. Why? Because our technology has what our ancestors would have viewed as divine powers. So we need to adapt our society, and, in particular, our decision making, to that.
To divine material powers have to correspond divine spiritual powers.
The essence of the crisis is that a few hidden secretive bankers are in charge of money creation, and, as they lay out of the reach of democracy, they lend to their co-conspirators. Throwing more public money at the problem of malignant GDP, through the banks, is throwing more gasoline into the roaring fire. While claiming disingenuously that, since it's liquidity, it should work.
Well not all liquids are the same, children! Money changes nature, according to what it is lent for. As demonstrated by the notion of money laundering: dirty money can be cleansed, and that is unlawful. Similarly, not all other ways to manipulate money ought to be lawful.
Fortunately, the Internet, by tapping the raw mental power of all of humankind will allow us to find solutions, a higher level of spirituality, of mental powers, which have escaped our leaders so far (supposing they care... against their own best interests...)
http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/
GDP? Which GDP indeed? GDP as Goldman Demonic Power? Enough of that already!
The problem with the present GDP is that it is too dependent on the financial piracy part of it. It is a bit like saying that the bigger the one who is ravaged by metastatic cancer, the better, while most of her mass is a malignant tumor, and growing.
In truth we need a Grand Divine Plan. Why? Because our technology has what our ancestors would have viewed as divine powers. So we need to adapt our society, and, in particular, our decision making, to that.
To divine material powers have to correspond divine spiritual powers.
The essence of the crisis is that a few hidden secretive bankers are in charge of money creation, and, as they lay out of the reach of democracy, they lend to their co-conspirators. Throwing more public money at the problem of malignant GDP, through the banks, is throwing more gasoline into the roaring fire. While claiming disingenuously that, since it's liquidity, it should work.
Well not all liquids are the same, children! Money changes nature, according to what it is lent for. As demonstrated by the notion of money laundering: dirty money can be cleansed, and that is unlawful. Similarly, not all other ways to manipulate money ought to be lawful.
Fortunately, the Internet, by tapping the raw mental power of all of humankind will allow us to find solutions, a higher level of spirituality, of mental powers, which have escaped our leaders so far (supposing they care... against their own best interests...)
http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Updates on politics: wealth to the rich, lies...
Those who admire a parodic version of Reagan, such as Obama and the Tea Party are in power. They are the equivalent of dinosaurs, because what they are trying to do, was tried under the Roman empire: give ever more money to the rich. The largest piece of Obama stimulus was tax cuts, and those tax cuts, over Bush and Obama have gone first to the hyper rich. As I said, the Romans had tried this first.
Those Reaganosaurs do not understand who is supposed to lead a democratic country: that's the government, not the hyper rich. Nor do they understand who leads the economy: that's also the government.
Without the government, there is no direction, no comprehension, no intelligence. So here we are.
The Roman empire collapsed from stupidity unchained. And that stupidity had been preceded by a government taking all the wrong decisions.
Because inasmuch as Obama and his bipartisan partner, the Tea Party, may not like it, they are the government. By refusing to lead, and saying the hyper rich will, they have abdicated their responsibility, And cut off the head: so the economy was running around without one, and now it has stopped moving. Can Obama understand that? Can the Tea Party?
***
Bin Laden was recruited and trained to attack civilian objectives by the CIA (and Saudi intelligence, itself recruited by the CIA). Everything else, while not necessarily a lie, is at best secondary.
Another truth is that, since civilization exists, plutocracy has been fighting democracy. Qadhafi was a plutocrat (worth: 150 billion dollars). The first enemy of plutocracy is the truth.
Right now, democracy is losing in the West, as the bankers have captured the money creation system for themselves, and those who represent the People .
http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/
Those Reaganosaurs do not understand who is supposed to lead a democratic country: that's the government, not the hyper rich. Nor do they understand who leads the economy: that's also the government.
Without the government, there is no direction, no comprehension, no intelligence. So here we are.
The Roman empire collapsed from stupidity unchained. And that stupidity had been preceded by a government taking all the wrong decisions.
Because inasmuch as Obama and his bipartisan partner, the Tea Party, may not like it, they are the government. By refusing to lead, and saying the hyper rich will, they have abdicated their responsibility, And cut off the head: so the economy was running around without one, and now it has stopped moving. Can Obama understand that? Can the Tea Party?
***
Bin Laden was recruited and trained to attack civilian objectives by the CIA (and Saudi intelligence, itself recruited by the CIA). Everything else, while not necessarily a lie, is at best secondary.
Another truth is that, since civilization exists, plutocracy has been fighting democracy. Qadhafi was a plutocrat (worth: 150 billion dollars). The first enemy of plutocracy is the truth.
Right now, democracy is losing in the West, as the bankers have captured the money creation system for themselves, and those who represent the People .
http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Bailing Out Greece Means More Taxes For France & Germany
Naked capitalism has a ridiculous article adopting the fancy fantasy that bailing out Greece, Portugal, Ireland does not augment taxes on Northern Europe, France, Germany, Netherlands, etc. Because it augments debt only, a stupid journalist based in Ireland claims.
According to this, paying all due respect, complete idiot, there is something as free money: just borrow it, become Greek, irish, American, whatever...
See what happens next, as you get downgraded into oblivion, with no more social services... Like in Cameron's kingdom, now complete with entire blocks burning. Do like the city of Half Moon Bay, next to Silicon Valley, and fire your police department: it's safe. Exilarating even.
The main argument therein is contradicted by facts, and basic logic. Totally.
According to decisions taken by Merkel and Sarkozy, which apparently did not reach the Ireland worthy of showing up in "naked capitalism", the French government is to lower deficit/GDP to less than 3% by 2013 (it's 5.4% now). Germany and the Netherlands are similarly committed.
To do so, the French government has announced that it will increase taxes, all over. So EU taxpayers do pay, and the author should listen to French TV; the declarations of the gov are loud and clear.
BTW, how could it be otherwise? Debt is just delayed spending.
http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/
According to this, paying all due respect, complete idiot, there is something as free money: just borrow it, become Greek, irish, American, whatever...
See what happens next, as you get downgraded into oblivion, with no more social services... Like in Cameron's kingdom, now complete with entire blocks burning. Do like the city of Half Moon Bay, next to Silicon Valley, and fire your police department: it's safe. Exilarating even.
The main argument therein is contradicted by facts, and basic logic. Totally.
According to decisions taken by Merkel and Sarkozy, which apparently did not reach the Ireland worthy of showing up in "naked capitalism", the French government is to lower deficit/GDP to less than 3% by 2013 (it's 5.4% now). Germany and the Netherlands are similarly committed.
To do so, the French government has announced that it will increase taxes, all over. So EU taxpayers do pay, and the author should listen to French TV; the declarations of the gov are loud and clear.
BTW, how could it be otherwise? Debt is just delayed spending.
http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Shamebook
The valuation of \"Facebook\" is rumored to be 100 billion dollars. It has more to do with very well organized crime than anything else (Goldman sachs is one of the main sponsors, of "Facebook", and the valuation). The company makes nearly no profits and has 2,000 employees, worldwide. Some French journalists surprised CIA employees they personally knew, at Facebook headquarters.
This sort of companies make it big, thanks to the enormous interior American market. A French company had a Facebook like company, but because of the smaller French market, and the lack of market manipulations American VCs are connected with the government for, it made just enough to get its ideas stolen.
Such Silicon Valley companies do not have really state of the art technology. American planners confuse tech superiority and market size. Hence a dangerous illusion, because organized crime tricks do not lead to real tech superiority, as the USSR demonstrated.
http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/
This sort of companies make it big, thanks to the enormous interior American market. A French company had a Facebook like company, but because of the smaller French market, and the lack of market manipulations American VCs are connected with the government for, it made just enough to get its ideas stolen.
Such Silicon Valley companies do not have really state of the art technology. American planners confuse tech superiority and market size. Hence a dangerous illusion, because organized crime tricks do not lead to real tech superiority, as the USSR demonstrated.
http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/
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